The Cell Door Slammed Behind Rubishov.

We Find In The History Of Ideas Mutations Which Do Not Seem To Correspond To Any Obvious Need, And At First Sight Appear As Mere Playful Whimsies Such As Apollonius' Work On Conic Sections, Or The Non-euclidean Geometries, Whose Practical Value Became Apparent Only Later.

The Revolutions Of Thought Which Shape The Basic Outlook Of An Age Are Not Disseminated Through Text-books- They Spread Like Epidemics, Through Contamination By Invisible Agents And Innocent Germ Carriers, By The Most Varied Forms Of Contact, Or Simply By Breathing The Common Air.

What Is An Editor But A Cross Between A Fall Guy And A Father Figure? Arthur Koestler

In Creating The Human Brain, Evolution Has Wildly Overshot The Mark.

In The Pun, Two Strings Of Thought Are Tangled Into One Acoustic Knot.